Effects of water velocity and turbulence on the behaviour of Iberian barbel (Luciobarbus bocagei, Steindachner 1864) in an experimental pool-type fishway

River Research and Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 360-373

  Silva, Ana T ^a   Santos, José M ^a   Ferreira, Maria T ^a   Pinheiro, António N ^b   Katopodis, Christos ^c  

^a Universidade de Lisboa   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c FRESHWATER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter; Cyprinids; Fish pass; Fishway; Kinetic energy; Reynold's shears stress

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CYPRINID; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW VELOCITY; HYDRAULICS; MOVEMENT; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; TURBULENCE;

BARBUS; CYPRINIDAE;

EID: 79952294222     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1363     Document Type: Article

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